What exactly are the parents’ food stamps buying then?
Then, you can track down the parents and send them back to Mexico where their welfare check will go a whole lot further.
Makes sense. Why aren't their parents feeding them? And why are you putting a gun to my head to make me feed them?
"the basis of economics is scarcity .. prices are the mechanism by which scarce resources are allocated" (I forget who)
When something is free there is going to be no limit on demand. Of course the demand is growing.
I, for one, am TAPPED OUT on this paying to feed these poor children over and over and over again. Now 3 meals a day, plus they take food home on weekends, and THEY ARE STILL GETTING ALL THE FOOD STAMPS.
Someone in the GOP needs to make an issue of this, AT LEAST propose an option that the kids either get meals at school OR the parents get the food stamps, but NOT BOTH.
The media is so incompetent in not asking these questions, as well, and just reporting on how it makes better students if the kids are not starving all the time.
Great! Let’s cancel the “fool stamps” for those families.
I weep for the future.
Research on family dinners has shown a plethora of benefits: [...] Do children reap those benefits because they have dinner with their families, or do the same families that have dinner together display other traits that account for higher achievement?
It's because they actually HAVE families to have dinner with. A mother AND a father cannot be replaced by free meal.
More recent research indicates...
Ah yes, my money spent on "research" that determined more of my money should be taken and given to the leisure class - brilliant!
LAUSD currently serves supper to 75,000 students and plans to expand the program to about 150,000 over the next two years. School officials estimate it will generate $16.6 million in revenue... *DING*DING*DING*DING*WE HAVE A WINNER!
“If these meals help alleviate stress, it could actually be good and open up more time for families,” she said.
WTF? Where in the h e ‘double hockey sticks’ is their families? Why aren’t they being fed? The parental units are either working or on welfare. There won’t be any family time give me a break.
Just recently stopped in a 7-11, big sign Our pizzas are EBT eligible. EBT money being spent on highly overpriced pizza.
An extra thigh and a biscuit, please. Oh, and can I get that to go? Momma’s waitin’ outside in her Mercedes...
Are these so-called “parents” too stupid to feed their own kids dinner?
Does anyone ever mention academics in a school story anymore?
More schools become parents, film at 11.
One stop welfare check care.
“All your bastards are belong to us.”
And this isn't just a ghetto thing. There are suburban people who drop their kids off well before eight am (before school care) and have them bussed to after school care facilities picking them up at 5,6 pm at night. 10, 11, 12 hours a day the kids are in these places.
(As published in my local paper ....)
Awful parents are to blame for hungry kids.
As Americans, we already give them free food stamps to pay for their children’s breakfast. Further, we have instituted free breakfast in schools, just to make sure their children are fed. School breakfast is there just in case the parents are so incompetent they can’t make food stamps work.
Kids still show up for school hungry. Why? Because their parents are so disorganized and uncaring that they get their kids to school too late and unfed.
No amount of free food by way of food stamps or free breakfasts can solve the main underlying problem: awful parents. They literally let their kids starve instead of shifting their lazy behinds.
No amount of government assistance can overcome this. Indeed, when government consistently relieves people of responsibility for their behavior throughout their lives, it teaches them the precise lack of caring that achieves starving kids.
And “progressives” call these government programs “caring.” Government “cares” so much, it permanently teaches people how to be irresponsible.